Rutgers School of Law–Newark Immigrant Rights Clinic and the American Friends Service Committee released Free But Not Freed, a report critical of ICE’s non-detention supervision mechanisms. The ICE problems are similar to problems popping up around California’s massive prison realignment, where tens of thousands of people being moved from overcrowded prisons into supervised release are being subjected to compliance checks and GPS monitoring.

In drone-world the industry’s trade association published its Code of Conduct, giving guidelines for drone operators and putting the drone in drones.

An excellent round-up of Snitching Here, There and Yon by the excellent Grit for Breakfast, which in turn tips its hat to the Snitching Blog, kept up by aw prof and former Baltimore public defender Alexandra Natapoff.The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts released its Wiretap Report 2011 last week. Reporting on wiretapping data is required under law, but mind the Law Enforcement Surveillance Gap, as described by researcher Chris Soghoian. The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s wiretapping lawsuit against the National Security Agency got a boost with three former NSA agents weighing in on the existence of intercept centers that fall squarely, albeit secretly, inside that surveillance gap.

Finally, two items that seemed a wee bit defensive that popped up on the ICE webpage ticker this week: a story about Shadow Wolves, a partnership between ICE and Tohono O’dham trackers formed in 1974, and a defense of SCOMM, just in time for Makowski vs. Holder, the first lawsuit by a US citizens (presumably) unlawfully detained under an SCOMM triggered detainer.